Jane Gallop, The Father's Seduction:
“There is a certain pederasty implicit in pedagogy. A greater man penetrates a lesser man with his knowledge. The homosexuality means that both are measurable by the same standards, by which measure one is greater than the other... These structures necessarily exclude women, but are unquestioned because sublimated-raised from suspect homosexuality to secure homology, to the sexually indifferent logos, science, logic” (1984: 63).
"Irigaray impertinently asks a few questions, as if the student, the women, the reader were not merely a lack waiting to be filled with Freud's knowledge, but a real interlocutor, a second view point. And in her questions a certain desire comes through, not a desire for a 'simple answer,' but for an encounter, a hetero-sexual dialogue. Not in the customary way we think heterosexual -- the dream of symmetry, two opposite sexes complementing each other. In that dream the woman/student reader ends up functioning as mirror, giving back a coherent, framed representation to the appropriately masculine subject..." (1984: 66).
"In the transcribed seminar, Irigaray says: 'What I desire and what I am waiting for, is what men will do and say if if their sexuality gets loose from the empire of phallocratism'" (1984: 66).
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